[Freedombox-discuss] Persistent Personal Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices

[Tony Godshall]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Marc Manthey <marc at let.de> wrote:
>>
>
>> I have one little concern , here in germany (maybe somewhere else ? )  we
>> have a law called "Störerhaftung"
>>
>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%B6rerhaftung
>>
>> i cant find a proper translation for it ( disturber responsibility  ? ) ,
>> but in short it means that the owner of a wifi/ hotspot or whatever its
>> called
>> when you share an ip with others, you are responsible !! , so if someone
>> downloads mp3s, porn, the owner could be be impeached.
>> and it happend several time here in germany.   >>>>
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving   !!
> ...
>> IMHO this affects all open wifi networks /mesh like freifunk
>> whatever...........
>>
>> i am not sure how we could  handle  this problem, technicaly.
>
> There is some work being done on this issue. See:
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement
>
> I'd say that whatever EFF and others come up with in that
> area will be something the Box should support, though in
> some places the Box owner might need to disable it.

Ideally this would happen automatically, like happens with
wifi frequencies...